AVincentInSpace

You can do that with plenty of network scanning apps, and you shouldn’t be doing that on device anyway. Not sure how Linux would stop that when you could install a bad package, or run apt update on something that has had a supply chain vulnerability.

If you're willing to consider supply chain vulnerabilities when considering whether someone is spying on you, who's to say there's not a supply chain attack against Wireshark that hides the malicious traffic?

For example you could be running a hackintosh.

Aren't hackintoshes virtually dead with the latest release of MacOS?

Soon as they force 11, I’m switching back to a Linux desktop, but honestly I’m not looking forward to it.

I don't know when you last used Linux, but I can virtually guarantee that the new user experience is better than you remember it being. The last time I had a driver issue with anything apart from my graphics card (and that was easily resolved) was roughly ten years ago. As for the new user experience and just getting everything set up without using the terminal, confessedly, I'm an Arch user, so I'm a bit out of touch with the newbie side of the Linux distro world, but from what I've heard, Bazzite makes the transition fairly painless.

As of MacOS 15.1 Sequoia, that is no longer possible.

In answer to your question, though, off the top of my head:

• Use a different desktop environment
• Uninstall OS components that I don't need for a lighter weight system
• Be absolutely certain that Apple isn't spying on me instead of just stopping Facebook from tracking me and then doing it themselves instead
• Run 32-bit apps after Apple ended support for them
• Play video games (the MacOS version of Steam is a joke and everyone knows it)
• Take my laptop or desktop to a repair service that isn't sanctioned by Apple, or (horror of horrors!) replace the components inside it myself

My parents loved and cherished me growing up, and still do, which is part of why I was the only kid in sixth grade with a laptop (the other part was I had a disability accommodation with the school that allowed me to type my assignments rather than write them by hand). The fact that they encouraged my programming talent at that age, didn't get mad when I installed a Fedora dual-boot on that laptop, and bought me the book Python for Kids for my 12th birthday, is why I'm a programmer now.

I'm sorry your parents didn't show you the love and support you deserved, but that's not the criterion we should be looking for.

There are a lot of things that Apple just straight up tells you you can't do -- I don't use a Mac often enough to make a list, but I can tell you that running apps made by people who aren't giving Apple $99/yr for code signing was recently added to it -- and using MacOS means being okay with that.

Because it's Unix, and Windows isn't, and they refuse to try Linux because it's ~~not backed by a corporation~~ too much of a headache to use day-to-day

careful, you mentioned linux on 196, that's a hangin' offense

When given due process of law, convicted by a jury of peers, and when it becomes obvious there really is no other way. That's justice. One guy with a gun is just a murderer.

Which is precisely why vigilante justice is so dangerous. Do I need to be worried because I said something that some asshat with a gun who was having a really bad day misinterpreted as transphobic, or in case I happen to look like somebody who raped somebody else's sister?

shooter was trained videogame killer

Oh my god, is it time for the boomer "Call of Duty makes kids violent" discourse again?

Among Us

nvm, this is peak comedy actually